Jessica Hopper: Living Female Rock Critic

Jessica Hopper has been writing about music for two decades, gathering an international following for her fearless and adroit critical talents – delivered through a vast catalogue of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews and oral histories.

She’s deconstructed Lana Del Rey for Spin, interviewed Björk and, in a longform piece for Buzzfeed, argued that selling out saved indie rock. Last year, she left her position as Rookie’s music editor to become a senior editor at Pitchfork, the Chicago-based website that’s been divining the musical zeitgeist since before it was cool. 

Hopper’s newly published anthology, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, bears a title which she explains is ‘about planting a flag’ for women (and particularly young female writers) in the male-dominated world of music journalism. 

In conversation with Myf Warhurst, Jessica will talk about the trends and trajectories of music journalism and share the backstory to her own revolutionary work.

This event is presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).

Online bookings have closed, but tickets are available from the ACMI Box Office before the event.